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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN. ESTABLISHED IN 1854, By CHAS. W. HANCOCK. ( VOL. 18. The Sumter Republican. Semi-Weekly Ono Tear - - -$4 00 IVeely, One Year - - - - - 2.00 in Advance sn All advertisements eminating from public o dices will be charged for in accordance with an act passed by the late General Assembly of Georgia—7s cents per hundred words for each of the first four insertions, and 35 cents for each subsequent insertion. Fractional parts of one hundred are considered one hundred words; each figure and initial, with date and signature, is counted as a word. The cash must accompany the copy of each advertisement, unless different arrange ments have been made. Advertising: Rates. One Square firstinsertion, - - - -51.00 Each subsequent insertion, - - - - .50 ®“Ten Lines of Minion, type solid con stitute a square, All advertisements not contracted for will be charged above rates. Advertisements not specifying the length of time for which they are to be inserted will be continued until ordered out and charged for accordingly. Advertisements to occupy fixed places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates Notices in local column inserted for ten cent per line each insertion. DON'T BUY Groceries BEFORE EXAMINING iW PERM’S LA.RGE STOCK ! -AS THEY— W!IL NOT Bd UNDERSOLD ! On any article in their line, but propose to UNDERSELL! WILL PAY HIGHEST PRICE FOR Georgia Seed Itye i COUNTRY MERCHANTS Will find that they can buyot us Kerosene Oil, Gun Powder, Shot and Matches! ! For less money than they can order. GLOYEIi & PERRY, sspfitf Americus, Ga. OLD BIJItG COMES TO TIIE FRONT THIS SEASON WITH DRINKS, FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE FOR TEN CENTS. OYSTERS, FISH AND GAME ON HAND AT ALL TIMES. MEALS FIXED UP IN ANY STYLE AND AT ALL TIMES—DAY AND NIGHT. BILLIARDS 5c per game two games for 25 cts—cash. POOL 2K CENTS PER CUE-ALL CASH. 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Sold by Druggists, or sent by express on receipt of One Dollar. Office, 83 Murray Street, New York. (Dr. TUTUS MA.NVAU of Valuable 'a Information and Useful JSeeeiptm I xcill be mailed. FREE on application, J dOMIFEIis SIftERS The true antidote to the effects of miasma is Hostetter’s Stomach Ritters. This medi cine is one of the most popular remedies of an agqof successful prosperity specifics, and is in immense demand wherever on this Continent fever and ague exists. A wine glasssful three times a day is the best possi ble preparative for encountering a malari ous atmosphers, regulating the liver, and invigorating the stomach. For sale by all Druggists and Dealers generally. . New Cotton Warehouse! I HAVE RENTED THE Sirrine Brick Building, ON EAST SIDE OF PU BLIP SQUARE AMERICUS, GA., Which I will repair and have ready to store cotton in during the coming season. My friends and the public are asked to patron ize me. All produce left in my care by friends and others, will receive prompt at tention and sold at best prices offered. J. L. PRICE. Americus, Ga., May 19, 1882. tf INDEPENDENT IN POLITICS, AND DEVOTED TO NEWS, LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND GENERAL PROGRESS. AMERICUS, GEORGIA; WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1882. TRUE HEROISM. Eleanore Gray and Dora Alton were great friends, though two more dissim ilar in every way it would be hard to find. For, while Eleanore was tall, dark, and brilliantly colored,Dora was child ishly slight, with a pale, lily-fair skin; and was vivacious and daring, Dora was shy and quiet. And, strange to say, the one you would deem least fitted to cope with the world was the one whom circumstances had compelled to do so from her earli est youth. The acquaintance between the two girls began at school; and when Elean ore, leaving school-days behind forever came to her beautiful home, at her urgent solicitation, Dora, whom she had grown to love as tenderly as a sis ter, accompanied her. The first month of vacation has pass ed and the second has been entered upon, and Dora sighs as she thinks how very soon the time will have flown, and this delightful experience that has come to her like an oasis in the mono tonous desert of her life will have ended. And yet the roses of pleasure have not been entirely without the thorns that always accompany them. Five weeks do not constitute a great portion of time; but in them much may happen, and they have sufficed to im plant in Doras gentle heart a some thing as strong as she knows it is hope less. By the terms of the deceased Mr. Gray’s will, his friend, Mark Eldridge, a man many years younger than him self, but possessing his utmost confi dence was left executor of his large fort une and guardian to his daughter. Thus it is that Gray Cottage fre quently sees Mr.Eldridge’s genial hand some face; and thus it is also that, in listening to his fluent conversation, which opens before her broad vistas of knowledge as well as entertainment. Dora has come to think that not in all the world is another so wise and good, and worthy of a maiden’s love. But not a hint of the truth does she suffer to escape, for sh 6 imagines that she has read a secret, and she is not surprised. “She is so beautiful and intelligent, it is no wonder that he loves her,” she muse's, as she watches with feeling of mingled admiration, tenderness, and pain the guardian of his lovely ward. The days go by until one comes which is long remembered. It has been a stormy afternoon, and with the gathering darkness the thun der begins to mutter menacingly. Sweetbriar Cottage, as Eleanore’s pleasant home is called,is situated upon a slight elevation, whose foot is wash ed by a narrow stream between which and terra firma runs the railway. From their position in the bow-win dow, where they are watching with fascinated eyes the cloud-phantasy of gloom rent by lurid light which the | storm presents to their vision, the girls j can see the line up and down for some j way. Suddenly a tremendous crash startles j them to their feet, and at the same in ■ stant a lightning flash illumines the | whole sky and surrounding objects. Eleanor’s face grows very pale as she grasps her companion’s arm, and points down upon the line. “Dora, the great elm at the foot of the terrace has been struck. “See, it has fallen across the line. “The seven o’clock express will be due in half an hour. “Dora, they will be wrecked, for the curve will prevent them seeing the dan ger before it is too late.” Dora looks and trembles. .“Can we do nothing, Eleanore?” she asks. “No-; for the nearest telegraph sta tion is across the river, and there is no other for five miles.” “We crossed the river yesterday, Eleanore. “Can we not do it now? I am going to try.” Eleanore gazed at her in surprise. “Dora Alton, you are crazy to think of such a thing. “To cross upon the stepping-stones in fair weather is quite a different thing to attempt in such a storm as this. “The water is very deep. “A single false step, and your life would pay the forfeit. “Nevertheless I shall try. “I know the way, and 1 may be the means of saving hundreds of my fellow creatures from a horrible fate. “Do not try to persuade me,Eleanore I must go.” And though Eleanore redoubled her terrified remonstrances,Dora went about her preparation firmly with a look of determination upon her young face that never faltered. At last she was ready, and Eleanore strained her small, water-proof-clad figure close to her heart. “Heaven protect you and keep you my darling!” she said solemnly. “You go for duty’s sake to brave a danger that, fearless as 1 have always deemed myself to he, I would never dare to attempt. “I love life too well to face what seems certain death.” “Ah, I, too, love life,” Dora said, as she disengaged herself from her friend’s clinging arms; “but something draws me on.” “Though I knew I never should re turn, I should go.” Out in the storm and the darkness Dora harries. The winds beats against her, now pushing her back, now urging her for ward, until at length Bhe stands upon the brink of the little river that ripples so innocently and cheerily along under a sunny sky, but whose waves now are leaping and tossing their foam-crests like mad things. The stepping stones, which hut yes terday were so easily crossed, are before her, and Doia begins her perilous jour ney. “Come back! Dora, Dora, come back!” calls Eleanor’s voice from the terrace above. But she does not heed. Steadily she goes onward, but. oh,so slowly! oftentimes slipping, and on the very edge of falling iuto the treacher ous water, whose inky blackness only seems the denser when, for a few sec onds, the glare of the lightning shows her what progress she is making. She has gained the centre of the stream. Her slight form is trembling with the combined effect of the cold, which strikes through her dripping garments, and the bodily exertions she has been compelled to make to keep hei footing upon the slippery rocks. Will she be able to reach the other side? Bravely she struggles on, and at length the goal is reached, and her feet touch the other shore. A short while later the telegraph operator, leaning idly back in his chair in his warm office, is startled by the entrance of a small, dripping figure, looking, with its dishevelled hair and pallid face, like a visitant from some ghostly sphere. “A tree has fallen across the line op posite Miss Gray’s cottage. “Telegraph for the seven o’clock ex press to stop.” Then, her mission accomplished, the brave heart stops beating, and Dora sinks uneonscous to the floor. Four weeks have gone by—vecks of the most intense anxiety; tor all that time Dora has laid between life and death. But at last the shadows has lifted, and out once more into health’s sun shine she has emerged, to the heartfelt joy of the friends who have prayed for her recovery incessantly, even when they feared their prayers would be of no avail. It is a bright, pleasant day, though somewhat chill, and in Eleanor’s cosy sitting room, in an easy chair, near the cheery fire, Dora is seated. She looks very lovely, for the fire glow has lent a delicate color to her pale cheeks, and made into a aureole of gold the short waves of hair that clus ter about her lair forehead. The door gently opens, and a voice says, “May I come in?” It is Mr. Eldridge, and it is the first time since her illness that Dora has met him. The delicate color deepens as she re signs her hand to his clasp, and an swers his words of greeting. They chat for a while; and then, to Dora’s great surprise, she learns what she has not known before, that among those who to her brave deed owed their safety from death was her friend’s guardian. “I asked Eleanore not to tell you,” he says; “for I wished to thank you myself, and at the same time to ask you a question most momentous to me. “It is this. “Dora, will you make the life you have saved more precious by laying that dear hand on mine, and saying that you will be my wife? “Ah, little one! my heart went out to you tho first time that we met; but I little knew to what a strength my pas sion had grown until the dark hour came when I feared that death was about to snatch you from me. “Dora what is my answer to he?” “And I always thought it was Elean ore you cared for,” Dora says, as, a little later, she sits with a happy face, and her little hand tightly clasped in her lover’s. “So I do care for Eleanore—very much; but it is Dora the heroic darling that I wish for my wife—the guardian angel of my heart and rny home!” is his answer. “I am more pleased than I can ex press,” is Eleanore’s esthusiastic excla mation, when the blissful secret is con fided to her, “I do not believe that in all the universe there is anyone nobler than my guardian, and, Dora, darling you are well mated, for nobility and hero ism are kindred qualities, and after what has passed you can certainly never call yourself a coward!” Dora stopped her mouth with a kiss- Woman-How Shull she Preserve her Health and Beauty. 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The Voltaic Belt Cos., Marshall, Mich., will send Dr. Dye’s Celebratud Electro- Voltaic Belts and Electric Appliances on trial for thirty days to men (young or old) who are afflicted with Nervous Debility. Lost Vitality and Manhood, and kindred troubles, guaranteeing speedy and complete destoratlon of health and manly vigor. Ad dress as above. N. B.—No risk is incurred as thirty da vs’ trial is allowed. A full assortment of Toilet Articles, Pe fumcry, Soaps, Etc,, Etc., at Dr. Eldirges, Drug Store. MONDAMM. BY N. A. Jl’c. The rosy light of morning dazzled the eyes of May Fallis when she awoke the day after arriving in the country. On arising she went to the window and gazed upon the lovely landscape before her, glistning with those gems of morn ing, the dew-drops, whose globes be neath the light of the sunbeams reflect ed the prismatic colors. “O, gift of God! O, perfect day!” sang May, as she thought of the beau tiful day, which the repose of the*ele ments apparently promised. “O, Alice, how glad lain I have come to the coun try in September, when everything as sumes the rich mantle of autumn. The flowers before being chilled by Sir Frost are brilliant in hue; the fruits assume the rich colors of the flowers', and vie with them in beauty.” “Do yon know, Cousin May,” said Alice Grey, “it seems to me as if tho grapes borrow the rich purple of the violets; the apples, with their varied lines, are like varigated flowers; and what can be more beautiful than the soft mellow colors of the peach? But, May, do hurry, or we shall be late to breakfast, which father so dislikes.” “Uncle,” said May after breakfast, will you go over the farm with us?” During the walk May noticed how many cornfields there were. “1 wonder,” said she, “if we had a wand of magic might if we could in voke the spirit of the fields to tell us something about the origin of corn.” “(J, nonsense, May,” said Alice, laughing, “nothing can be said about so common a thing as corn. Father, you can not imagine what queer notions she has sometimes. She is always wondering about something.” “O! May, let me be the fairy,” said her uncle, “and on fancy,s airy pinions soar back to the days when the Indians were sole possessors of the land. In those ancient times I think I hear the Spirit say the Ojibwas had a legend called Mondanim, or the legend of In dian Corn. “There once lived a poor Indian whose only possession were his wife and children. He was of a kind, contented disposition, but unskilled in procuring food. His eldest son was called Man abozho. Mauabozho had always been a kind, obedient son. He had now ar rived at the proper age, according to the rites of bis tribe, to undertake the ceremony of the fast, in order to see what spirit was to be chosen as his guide and guardian through life. It is during this fast that the youths and maidens ‘see visions and dream dreams!’ “Early in the spring liis father built him a wigwam some distance from his own, where he could be undisturbed during his fast. For several days the youth amused himself rambling throuh the woods watching the trees bud, the flowers peep forth and all nature assume her spring robes. “‘Why cannot the Great Spirit, who supplies us with game and fish, permit us to have an easier way of gaining a living? I must try to find out.’ said Manabozho. “On tlie third day, being weak and weary, he remained in bed. He dream ed he saw a handsome, graceful young man come down from the sky and ad vance toward him. His visitor was clothed in many garments of various shades of green and yellow. Upon his head was a golden-lmed plume of feathers. “His guest thus addressed him: “I am sent to you by theGieat Spirit, who knows your wish is only to aid others, and not to ask for strength to gain glory and renown in warfare, that you fast. Therefore he has sent mo to instruct you how you may do good. Von must now get up and wrestle with me, as it is only through this means that you can hope to do good.’ “Manabozho, although weak with fasting, arose and wrestled with him until he declared it was enough for that time, but that he would return to-mor row. Smiling, the visitor disappeared. “Manabozho, though still weaker the next day, felt his courage wax stronger, and declared to himself he would rather die than fail. “His combatant returned and ad dressed him as on the previous day. When the trial was over for that day, the stranger said to him: “ ‘Be of good cheer, for the last trial will take place to-morrow. If you are successful in that, you will obtain the boon you asked of the Great Spirit.’ “On the third day they wrestled again. Manabozho, although almost exhausted, exerted himself to the utter most. After the usual time had elaps ed the stranger declared himself van quised. He then entered the lodge, and sitting down by the youth proceeded to tell him how to profit by his victory. “ ‘The Master of Life has granted your desires. ' You have wrestled cour ageouly. To-morrow is the seventh day of your fast, and the last day of trial, and you will be successful. I will now tell yon what you must do in order to benefit your tribe. To-mor row we will wrestle for the last time. As soon as you have overcome me take off my garments, and bury me in a spot where you have cleared the earth of roots and weeds, and made the ground soft and loose. When you have car ried out these instructions, leave my body in the earth; do not disturb it, but come once a month and place a lit tle fresh easth over me. Also watch for my coming to life, and do*not let the grass and weeds grow on my grave. Do as I tell you, and you will become the benefactor of the nations.’ “He then shook hands with Mana bozho and disappeared. “On the following day the youth’s father appeared at the lodge and thus addressed him: “ ‘My soil, you have now fasted seven days, which is the allotted time.’ “ ‘Father.” said the youth. ‘Permit me to continue my fast until sunset, as I have a special reason for so doing.’ His father granted his request. “At the usual hour his vision return ed, and the trial was resumed. With supernatural power, he threw his com batant dead upod the ground, and took from him his gay garments and wav ing plumes. He buried him as he had been told to do, feeling very certain of his return to life. “Manabozho then returned to his father’s lodge, but was careful to con ceal from all what had taken place. He visited the grave often, and kept the earth loose and carefullv weeded. “Toward the close of summer On his return from hunting, Manabozho invit ed his father to visit with him the scene of his former fast. The wigwam had been removed, and in its place stood tall, graceful plants, with long leaves and golden clusters on each side, sur mounted by nodding plumes of soft, golden, silken hair. “ ‘lt is rny fiiend. It is the friend of all the tribes. It is Mondanim,’ cried the youth. ‘We need no longer rely upon fishing and hunting for a living. So long as we cherish this beneficient gift we can obtain our living from the ground. The Master of Life has grant ed me my supplications, and sent this great blessing.’ “Manazho then pulled an ear, and communicated to his father the instruc tions he had received. He told his fath er the husks must be torn from the ear, as he had stripped the garments from the stranger in wrestling. The silk corresponded to bis waving plumes. When the ear was thus prepared, he showed his father how to cook the new food. This is the origin of Indian corn, the gift of the Great Spirt.” “But,” said his daughter Alice, “was there much corn here when the colonists first came?” “The Puritan fathers found it in abundance along the New England coast. Humboldt says it was found by the Europeans from the south of Chili to Pennsylvania. Another author sug gests, he might as well have said to the St. Lawrence. It was the great staple of Mexico. The Aztecs knew as many and various ways of preparing corn as any cook. In the equinoctial regions the gigantic stalks are stored with a saccharine matter not found to the same extent in northern latitudes' This supplied the natives with sugar not mush inferior to that made from cane. “The Peruvians were also acquainted with the different methods of preparing this cereal, although they did not use it for bread except at festivals. They made an intoxicating liquor lroin the fermented grain. Both they and the Aztecs were immoderately addicted to the use of it. One of the liquors, called chica, the Peruvians used at their relig ious festivals; another, called sora. was of such strength that the use of it was fobidden, at least to the canaille. “Uncle,” said May, “if both the Peruvians and Mexicans had corn,what does the fairy say concerning them?” “If the fairy must speak again,’’said her uncle, “Centeosl was the Aztec goddesg of maize. She was said to be of surpassing beauty. During some of the Aztec religious festizals, process ions of women and children, crowned with garlands, bore offerings of ripened maize and fruit to their gods. “Maize was of great importance also in the Peruvian religion. Corn was one ofltheir minor deities. Their minor deities were called conopas, and they corresponded to the Lares and Penates of the Romans. One speceis of the Zea Conopa consisted of certain stones cut in the shape of ears of corn; and this consisted ot a doll made of cornstalks clothed in a mantle and topus of silver like that used by the Indians. They also worshipped ears of corn, which had grains of various colors. “In the time of harvest the Peru vians offered the earth (which was a terrestiai deity) ground corn and chica, imploring her to favor them with a good harvest. When they wished to cross a river or fish in it they threw corn into it, in order to render the God of the River propitious. The Peruvi an religion required confession. The penitent in order to prove that he had concealed nothing, was required to throw a handful of corn into a vessel; if the number of grains was found to be uneven the confession was unavail ing, if even it was efficacious. Some of their soothsayers prognosticated fut ure events by means of small heaps of corn. “One of their principal offerings of the vegetable kingdom to their deities, was corn in all its forms; cooked orraw on or off the ear, or converted into the liquor chica. The Indians emptied a small gold vase filled with chica as a libation to the God at every feast; when all the ceremonies were concluded, the Indians themselves indulged liber ally in their favorite beverage, thus terminating most of their religious fes tivites'in a general inebriation. “The Peruvians had a feast during the winter solstice to implore the sun to protect the corn from the severity of the frost. This festival was preceded by a day of general fasting. The feast day was celebrated with great rejoicing, and was concluded by three days of solemn dancing. Even the names of some of their months were derived from the vari ous stages of the growth of corn; as for instance, April was called Agrilmay, j FOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM, which signifies an ear of corn with grains of different colors. In this month they commenced their harvest of this vegetable with the usual harvest festivi ties. Those who found certain colors in the grains of the full ear, were award ed prizes. The successful competitor was celebrated throughout tlie nation.” “L T ucle,” said May, “will yon please tell us it they had gardens of gold, and if any maize was represented in those gardens?” “Several authors,” remarked her uncle, “assert that the Peruvians had artificial gardens of gold in the gardens of the royal palaces and in those of the Icm pie of the Sun. In these artificial gaidens were different kinds of maize; their stalks, leaves and ears were of gold; in some the fibers found in the ear and stalks were of gold, all the rest be ing silver. Sometimes the golden ear was displayed amid husks of silver, whilst a tassel of silver floated grace fully above. These gardens sparkled with flowers of gold and silver and vege tition of all kinds. Where the flower was yellow it was made of gold; where white, of silver. In these gardens thev had also animals of gold and even statues of women in gold and silver. If this seems incredible to you, remember how rich Peru was in gold and that this gold was the property of the Inca.” “Oh, how pleasant it is,” exclaimed May, “to have fancy’s rays illumine even so commonplace a thing as a field of maize!” A Smart Man is one who does his work qnickly and well. That is what Dr. R. V. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery” does as a blood-purifier and strengthened It arouses the torpid liver, purifies the blood, and is the best remedyforcon sumption, which is scrofulous disease of the lungs. Augusta, Ga , May 26 1851. IV. 11. Barrett, Druggis Augusta, Ga., Dear Sir—Having used your H. 11. P. Liver Remedy,and being greatly benefitted, I wish to add my testimonial for tlie benefit of all suffering in any way with torpid liver, dyspepsia, etc. As to the efficiency of the remedy—l found it the best remedy I ever tried, being gentle in its action, and entirely harmless. Yours truly, IV. C. Garlaeu of Kentucky. Read IV hat General G, T. Tige Anderson Says. Messrs. lletchinson& Biio. Gentlemen— I have been a great sufferer iron neuralgia— the attacks lasting for days, I had tried every known remedy without being relieved. In my last attack I tried your “Neuralgine,” and in a short time was perfectly cured. It is a consolation to know that I have at last a remedy that controls this painful disease, and I can cheerfully recommend it to all who suffer as I do. G. T. Anderson, Chief of Police. Atlanta, April 18, 1879. HUTCHINSON & BRO.,Proprietors, At lanta, Ga. Sold by Dr. E. J. Eldridge, J. E. Hall, IV. TANARUS, Davenport & Son and A. J. .t IV. B. Hudson. sept6-2ui Rev. Dr. J. 11. Devotie: “I have been relieved by it of a severe attack of headache.” The following short letter from Dr. J . I). Mitchell,a member of the Geor gia Legislature, is a very strong en dorsement: Messrs. Hutchinson & Bro. I have used your “Neuralgine,” and find it all you claim, a specific for neuralgia and headache. J. D. Mitcheij,M.D. Beautiful Women are made pallid and unattractive by functional irregularities, which Dr. Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription” will infallibly cure. Thousands of tes timonials. By druggists. Scull Siioals, Ga., Greene Cos., 1 August 3, 1876. j Me. W. H. Barrett, Augusta,Ga.: Bear Sir —l have sold Dr. GILDER’S PILLS for the past two years, and find that all in this neighborhood ap prove them. The physicians have recommended them, and the people will have none other. They are better LIVER PILLS than any I have any knowledge of. Very respty, Henry Moore. To Promote a Vigorous Growth o£ the hair, use Parker’s Hair Balsam. It re stores tlie youthful color to gray hair, re moves dandruff, and cures itching of the scalp. Paint your house with ready mixed Paint which anyone can use; also strictly pure White Lead and Linseed Oil, Kelsomine and Alabastine for tinting walls, all shades and colors, and all sold at Hr. Eldridge’s Drug Store. Mrs. I I. ELAM Announces to the public that her stock of Fall UDiiH HAVE ARRIVED, The assortment is complete, selected by herself in tlie city of New York. As to Style and Quality J of goods, the taste of the most fastidious can be suited. As to prices, she can almost say that even chronic grumblers will bo satisfied. She regrets that on account of the dust being so awfully bad, she has to forego the usual opening. Still, her stock is here in more than usual richness and variety. Customers will be waited on by her corps of assistants, Mrs. Lewis, Mrs. Tommey, Miss Preston, Miss Head. Cash buyers and prompt paying short time customers are invited to call, examine; price and buy. octlfflf NO. 13.